"stink up the room"

[Jonathan Lighter]

'To present vexing difficulties or distractions.'

CNN reports that in the midst of the Cards'  dramatic drive to the
pennant and the World's Championship, "The Braves began stinking up
the room."

JL

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"If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."

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